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KKK Reenactment: Ground-Breaking High School History Lesson, or Extremely Bad Taste?

There's an old saying that goes "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," and one Georgia history teacher is probably wishing she had stuck to the remembering part and not the whole bring-it-back-to-life with full Ku Klux Klan costume garb part.

Catherine Ariemma teaches honors history at Lumpkin County High School in Dahlonega, Ga., about 65 miles north of Atlanta, and by all accounts is a good teacher with a spotless record over the past five years with the school district.

Not anymore.

Ariemma encouraged one of her classes to wear Klan hoods through the school cafeteria. Let that sink in. A history teacher encouraged high school kids to wear symbols of one of the most recognizable racist groups of the past century, on school grounds in the heart of the Old South. What could go wrong?...
Read entire article at CBS News